Feig v. Meyers
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the Court of Common Pleas of Somerset county: Of July Term 1882, No. 229. • Ejectment, by Rebecca C. Meyers, against John Eeig et al., for a lot of ground in Berlin borough, Somerset county. Plea, not guilty.
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Error to the Court of Common Pleas of Somerset county: Of July Term 1882, No. 229. • Ejectment, by Rebecca C. Meyers, against John Eeig et al., for a lot of ground in Berlin borough, Somerset county. Plea, not guilty. On the trial, before Rowe, P. J., it was admitted that Charles Heffley died seised of the premises in dispute in 1868. The plaintiff, Mrs. Rebecca Meyers, claimed under an Orphans’ Court sale in partition, made March 25th 1870, duly confirmed May 5th 1870, and she offered in evidence the record thereof and a deed dated June 10th 1870, from Josiah Heffley and George Heffley,…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Trunkey
The plaintiff alleges, that at her suggestion, her husband pm-chased the land for her, and that she furnished the money for all the payments that were made. For the present this question is settled by the verdict. The testimony touching it was submitted under fitting instructions, the first of which was, — “ She must show that the property was bought for her; that she had the means to buy with; and that she applied those means in payment of the purchase money. And this she must show by evidence at once clear and so full and satisfactory, that the jury can rely on it with reasonable…
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